The Dead Poets Society Podcast
By Kyle W. Porter
Every episode, host Edgar Allan Poe and his pet Raven, Usher, take a look at the life and times of a different dead poet and then invite them on the show for an interview that doesn't always go according to plan.
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The Dead Poets Society PodcastAug 28, 2020
Seven Rooms--Unabridged
Happy birthday to me...
Happy birthday to me...
Happy birthday, greatest podcaster and literary genius, Edgar Allan Pooo-ooe.
Happy birthday to me!
And as a special birthday treat, we proudly present all "7 Rooms" together, unabridged for your listening pleasure!
Room Seven
Listen to the dramatic final conclusion of Poe's first draft of "The Masque of the Red Death". Poe is very pleased with it. Mrs. Poe, not so much....
Starring Killarney Traynor (https://www.killarneytraynor.com).
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Room Six
In this episode, The Red Death finally makes his dramatic reveal and introduces himself to some of Prospero's guests.
Starring Killarney Traynor (https://www.killarneytraynor.com), Mark Prokes, and Leila Toba.
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Room Five
In this episode, everyone one is invited to the grand, masked ball of the lively and eccentric Prince Prospero......everyone, including an unexpected guest.
Starring Jade Ansell, Mark Prokes, and JJ O'Sullivan.
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Room Four
In this episode, The Red Death makes his way into the abbey and spills the tea with some of Prospero's guests.
Starring Killarney Traynor (https://www.killarneytraynor.com) and Leila Toba.
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Room Three
In room three, we meet the bumbling guardsmen tasked with shutting up the abbey "from the sudden impulses of despair".....as well as an unexpected guest.
Starring Francis Sheenan and JJ O'Sullivan.
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Room Two
In this episode, we fully enter the world of the the Red Death and meet some of its potential and colorful victims.
Starring Mark Prokes and Shaughn Earle.
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Room One
In the first room of 'the imperial suite', Poe gets the creative spark from his industrious, sock-knitting wife, Virginia.
Starring Killarney Traynor (https://www.killarneytraynor.com) as Virginia.
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DPSP Season 5 Trailer
"The Masque fo the Red Death' is one of my favorite stories that I've written ( and one of your favorites too, I correctly assume.) But, have you ever wondered what happened in the 7 rooms of the "imperial suite" in which it was held?
Well, wonder nevermore! This Halloween you can begin listening to what went on in those rooms whilst the Red Death "long devastated the country". Every new episode will reveal a different room, and a different story, from the beginning to the dramatic conclusion.
Episode #5---Dante Alighieri
Poe and Usher sit down with poet, politician, and one-time pharmacist Dante Alighieri to relive Poe's old glory days only to discover that maybe they were a little too glorious (?). It's the season finale of The Dead Poets Society Podcast, starring Mark Prokes as Dante Alighieri!
Be sure to check out the official website: www.deadpoetssocietypodcast.com for more exciting updates!
Auld Lang Syne
Didn't get what you want for Christmas AGAIN this year? Before you exchange your gift for one of even less value, check out the one-stop-shop that's a real scream!!
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Episode #4---Edna St. Vincent Millay
Poe and Usher pour some libations out to enjoy the hooch and happiness of Edna St. Vincent Millay. They even get to meet her surprising entourage, and they're pretty sweet....
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Featuring Kate Eppers as Edna St. Vincent Millay
Episode #3---Ogden Nash
Poe and Usher get wrapped up in the wit and puzzling intellect of the master of light verse, Ogden Nash. Just how did he craft such whimsical verses? Well, it's quiet the riddle...
Starring Killarney Traynor (https://www.killarneytraynor.com) as Ogden Nash.
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Episode #2---Allen Ginsberg
This time Poe and Usher sit down with the great iconoclast, Allen Gins-Quarter pound hamBERGer with cheese! (....and things get more than a little spacey).
Starring Leila Toba as Allen Ginsberg
Season 4, Episode #1---Jack Kerouac
In this season opener, Poe and Usher return from being out "on the road" to interview Beatnik poet, daddy-o, Jack Kerouac.
Starring Terry Tamm as Jack Kerouac.
Join us, won't you?
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Season 4 Trailer
Breaking free from the jaws of death, it's Season 4 of the Dead Poets Society Podcast! This season is chock full wit and wisdom from all of your favorite poets, including: the original Dharma Bum, a poet who's a real scream, and an old friend addresses a new controversy. You'll be bored nevermore on Season 4 of the Dead Poets Society Podcast! Coming Oct. 20th!
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Thou Art the Man!
"I will now play the Oedipus to the Rattleborough enigma. I will expound to you- as I alone can- the secret of the enginery that effected the Rattleborough miracle- the one, the true, the admitted, the undisputed, the indisputable miracle, which put a definite end to infidelity among the Rattleburghers and converted to the orthodoxy of the grandames all the carnal-minded who had ventured to be sceptical before..."
Featuring Shaughn Earle as Claudio.
The Cask of Amontillado
"The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult I vowed revenge. You, who so well know the nature of my soul, will not suppose, however, that gave utterance to a threat."
Featuring Mark Prokes as Ernest Hemingway.
Episode #6---John Milton
Recovering from his wounded pride, Poe summons the great and "most learned of all English Poets", John Milton. (And also summons up an unexpected guest).
Featuring Killarney Traynor (www.killarneytraynor.com) as John Milton.
Episode #5---Sylvia Plath
After having his window repaired by Carl Sandburg, Poe takes an intimate look at the short life and times of fellow Bostonian, Sylvia Plath.
Featuring Caroline Hawthorne (Twitter @carolthecomic and Instagram: caroline_e_hawthorne) as Sylvia Plath.
And guest appearance by Jack Cappadona (www.jackcappadona.com).
Episode #4---Shel Silverstein
Still suffering from a broken window, Poe braces the cold to interview the one-of-a-kind children's author, illustrator, songwriter, and playwright: Shel Silverstein (well, maybe not one of a kind).
Featuring Jack Cappadona (www.jackcappadona.com) and Lillian Kelly as Shel Silverstein.
Episode #3---Oscar Wilde
Still recovering from his interview with Ernest Hemingway, Poe receives fashion advice from guru and master of the aesthetic Oscar Wilde and his special animal companions.
Featuring Leila Toba as Oscar Wilde, with special guest appearances by Shasha "The Madness" as Svetlana, and Jack Cappadona (www.jackcappadona.com) as Robert Frost.
Episode #2---Ernest Hemingway
Poe comes back from the Pit of Despair to get some pearls of wisdom from tough guy author and real-life macho-macho-man: Ernest Hemingway.
Featuring Mark Prokes as Ernest Hemingway.
Season 3, Episode 1---Dr. Seuss
Poe returns from the great beyond in a big way to interview everyone's favorite children's author: Dr. Seuss.
Featuring William Annand as Dr. Seuss and Jack Cappadona (www.jackcappadona.com) as W. B. Yeats.
DPSP Season 3 Trailer
Celebrate the 'Day of the Dead' everyday on season 3 of the Dead Poets Society Podcast! This season features a recipe from the world's most famous children's author, fashion advice from the master of the aesthetic, and words of wisdom from the most interesting American writer of the 20th Century. It's time to Spring ahead with Season 3 of the Dead Poets Society Podcast!
The Murders in Rue Morgue
"The mental features discoursed of as the analytical are, in themselves, but little susceptible of analysis...We know of them, among other things, that they are always to their possessor, when inordinately possessed, a source of the livest enjoyment."
A special announcement just in time for the holidays from Inspector Clinton Kane.
Featuring: Jack Cappadona (www.jackcappadona.com).
The Black Cat
"For the most wild, yet most homely narrative which I am about to pen, I neither expect nor solicit belief. Mad indeed would I be to expect it, in a case where my very senses reject their own evidence."
Poe presents a special encore performance of "The Black Cat".
Featuring Jack Cappadona (www.jackcappadona.com) as Robert Frost.
Episode #6---John Donne
Poe gets deep in meditation with "Love's Deity" and "The Triple Fool" himself, John Donne. Well, maybe a little too deep?
Featuring Jim Cannizzaro as John Donne.
And special guest Jack Cappadona (www.jackcappadona.com) as Robert Frost.
Episode #5---Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Poe tries to recover from his mishap with Robert Frost and his bovine companions and is met with a sudden surprise.
Featuring Madeleine Mason (www.madeleinekmason.com) as Longfellow and Jack Cappadona (www.jackcappadona.com) as W. B. Yeats.
All Hallows' Eve
"The children of the night, what sweet music they make."
This Halloween special is something to really sink your teeth into.
Featuring Jack Cappadona (www.jackcappadona.com) as Jackula.
Episode #4---Robert Frost
Poe tries to recover after the whirlwind exit of Maya Angelou and summons to the show farmer, poet, and animal expert, Robert cold-as-ice-Frost.
Featuring Jack Cappadona (www.jackcappadona.com) as Robert Frost.
Episode #3---Maya Angelou
In an effort to get more serious with the show's content, Poe and Usher welcome literary giant Oh-me-oh-my-oh-Maya Angelou to the show.
Featuring Hasi Rajao (Instagram: hasi_rajao) as Maya Angelou.
Episode #2----Tupac Shakur
Poe and Usher get in real deep with the rose that grew from concrete, Tupac Shakur.
Featuring Shasha "The Madness" as Tupac.
Season 2, Episode 1---Ex-Wives & Lovers Speciale!
'Hell hath no fury like a woman's scorn' and in the opening episode of the new season of the Dead Poets Society Podcast, Poe discovers just how true that is.
Featuring Shasha "The Madness" as Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton, Mercedes Michelle, (www.mercedesmichelle.com and Instagram is @mercedesmichelle__) as Helen Whitman, and Caroline Hawthorne (Twitter @carolthecomic and Instagram is caroline_e_hawthorne) as Nancy Richmond.
DPSP Season 2 Trailer
Rising from the grave, it's season two of the Dead Poets Society Podcast. This season there's something for everyone: a literary giant, a rose that sprang up from the concrete, and a surprise guest. Expect the unexpected on season two of the Dead Poets Society Podcast. Coming this fall!
The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar
"Of course I shall not pretend to consider it any matter for wonder, that the extraordinary case of M. Valdemar has excited discussion."
Episode #6---Robert Burns
Poe has a few bottles to take the sting out of Jane Austen's burn last week. Speaking of burns, Poe calls upon Scotland's national bard, Robert Burns as this week's guest.
Episode #5---Jane Austen
In an effort to get more diverse writers on the show, Poe calls upon novelist Jane Austen who has just come back from holiday.
*Featuring "The Shasha" as Jane Austen.
Episode #4----William Shakespeare
Poe returns from his out of body experience and tries to audition for one of Shakespeare's plays.
Episode #3---Kahlil Gibran
Poe recovers from his heartache and gets himself deep into the mystical writings of Kahlil Gibran. Maybe a little too deep.
Episode #2---Emily Dickinson
Poe and Usher take a look at the life and times of Emily, "the girl next door", Dickinson.
Episode #1---Charles Bukowski
Poe interviews everyone's favorite mad, barfly poet, Charles Bukowski for the very first episode of the Dead Poets Society Podcast.
Dead Poets Society Podcast--Trailer
Introducing the Dead Poets Society Podcast. Take a deep dive into the inner-sanctum of some of the greatest minds in literature. The only catch? They're all dead.